Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many of the opposition he passes. In the meantime, the skaters on the team that has a jammer out try to slow down the members of the other team to keep them from catching the jammer; and when the jammer comes around, his buddies get set to block for him. The enemy, of course, does its all to dump the guy, since this is the only way it can prevent being scored on unless time runs out on the jammer...
Hundreds of the boom's new families were living in trailers; many were sleeping in automobiles. Drillers, riggers, roughnecks and roustabouts packed the juke-joints and short-order cafes (dry Snyder has no bars). Trucks hauling oil derricks half a block long kept the courthouse square grey with dust. With new motor courts, hotels, office buildings and theaters abuilding, bug-eyed citizens of Snyder were predicting a population of 30,000 by next year...
...cannot take a man without basic football instinct and teach him to block like a man with good football instinct. Valpey and his staff worked on blocking every day of the season. They did not neglect this fundamental...
Davis explained that the grouping of bus-stops around the kiosk and near the Yard, now keeps the Coop block from becoming "one big loading platform." Merchants in that block had previously complained that the bus-stops discouraged customers with automobiles and blocked off the store fronts...
Complaints by local businessmen have been largely responsible for the demise of rotary traffic. The one-way traffic system evolved for upper Boylston Street was a vital part of the master plan, which was a vital part of the master plan. It on the western side of the block claimed that it was harming business